svn commit: r227797 - head/share/mk

[Peter Wemm]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 2:26 PM, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>> 2011/11/22 Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org>:
>>> On 2011/11/22, at 21:33, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>>> With this change, I can no longer update a FreeBSD 9.0-current system
>>>>> from June 2010 to FreeBSD 10.0. I suspect I'm not the only one.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, my mind reader is broken at the moment, so you'll have to provide
>>>> more information than that.
>>>
>>>
>>> If I had more information, I would have provided it. I'm still diagnosing the problem someone else created.
>>
>> That is to say ... "take a machine running 9-current from june 2010
>> which has no issues.  Fetch a HEAD source tree and try the usual
>> buildworld process, and watch it explode."
>> Right?
>
> I'm not sure that's an interesting test case, since we don't
> "Officially" support major version upgrades other than from the latest
> -stable version of the branch immediately before the one you're trying
> to upgrade to. IOW, the interesting question is, does it work if you
> upgrade to stable/9 first?
>

Rui said he was researching why.

However..  the first thing I noticed was this commit *adds* a .c.o:
rule in bsd.lib.mk, which replaces the default in sys.mk.

The one in sys.mk has ctfconvert rules and the new one does not.  At
face value, this alone looks suspicious.

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